Garment-stay.



No. 892,689. PATENTED JULY 7, 1908.

D. SCHULER.

GARMENT STAY.

APPLICATION FILED FEB- 20, 1907.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR wvw- 3% UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID SOHULER, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE SPIRELLA COMPANY, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

GARME NT-STAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 7, 1908.

Application filed February 20, 1907. Serial No. 358,392.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID SOHULER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Meadville, in the county of Crawford, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garment-Stays, of which the following, taken in connection With the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an improvement on the garment-stay shown in my Letters Patent No. 868,296, dated October 15, 1907.

My present invention consists in the novel arrangement of the row of successive loops of the coiled wire, which loops are in the present case distributed with spaces between them and thus simplify the construction of the garment-stay and reduce the amount of Wire required in coiling the same, and at the same time place the successive coils in position to allow a stiffening strip to be passed in substantially the same manner through each of the successive loops of the coils, thereby facilitating the insertion of said stiffening strip and also obviating excessive andv objectionable undulations in the plane of the garment-stay, all as hereinafter more fully explained.

In the accompanying drawings Figures 1 and 2 are fragmentary front views of the class of garment-stays which are designed to be applied to corsets, and Figs. 3 and 4 are transverse sections on the dotted lines XX- and YY respectively.

A and -B represent two wires, preferably of spring steel or other suitable spring metal. Each of these wires is coiled flatwise in the form of a continuous row of loops -aawhich are distributed with spaces between them and sustained in said position by theC-shaped intermediate portions of the wire uniting the loops at one edge of the row. The said coiled wires -A and B- are interwined by the intermediate.

sha ed intermediate portions of the other and holding said parts in intimate contact with each other.

C C representstiffeningstrips formed from suitable flexible material, preferably spring steel. These strips are inserted endwise into the rows of loops, in which operationeach of said strips passes in substantially the same manner through each of the successive loops and thus produces an ap proximately flat stay by a very simple and inexpensive operation. Said manner of applying the stiffening strips CC is facilitated by the arrangement of the loops --aa with spaces between them as here inbefore stated.

(l-(l denote the usual metal tips which are attached to the ends of the corsetstay.

-ee represent the devices for fastening the corset to the body of the person. Said fastening devices consist of plates, a plurality of which are attached to each of the stays. The plates on one of the stays are provided with eyes e and slots c extending from said eyes and adapted to engage studs f on the opposite stay, in the usual and Well known manner.

What I claim as my invention is:

A corset-stay consisting of two wires, each of which is coiled flatwise in the form of a continuous row of loops, distributed with spaces between them and united by C- shaped intermediate portions of the wire, the said coiled wires being intertwined by the C- shaped intermediate portions of each wire passing directly around one side of the correspondingly shaped intermediate portions of the other wire, and stiffening strips inserted endwise and passing through each of the successive loops in substantially the same manner.

DAVID SCHULER.

Witnesses W. V. l'uNcAID, L. M. RICHMOND. 

